BRC Spring Count 2021 Cancelled
This year the third pilot spring count was supposed to be conducted. Sadly, after many considerations, we hereby announce that the count has officially been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last year, in 2020, we were lucky to already have a count team of five volunteers present in Georgia before all the travel restrictions came into effect. Eventually this team managed to complete the full count.
Up until recently, we had the same plan in mind for this year: conducting the last pilot spring count with a small team of counters. Unfortunately, as the COVID situation has not improved, the risks outweigh the benefits in this matter. Thus we put our hopes up for the next spring season in 2022 and the coming autumn!
BRC 2020 T-Shirt
Many things have changed in 2020, but one thing has not: this year — once again — we have a BRC T-shirt for sale. After so many annual shirts, we simply could not leave a 2020-sized ‘hole’ in our collection. So our crack team of designers made a fittingly dark shirt to commemorate this year.
On top of that: Swarovski Optik will kindly donate €10 to BRC for every T-Shirt sold!
Note: Unfortunately, due to COVID, international shipping is severely delayed and may take 2-3 weeks.
Spring Report 2020 published
Black Kite with a mole. Photo by Tohar Tal.
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has ground daily life to a halt for many of us, bird migration of course continued and so did our team of spring counters in Batumi. The 2nd official spring count reaffirms the unprecedented growth in Black Kite numbers, that few Honey Buzzards use the bottleneck on the way to their breeding grounds, and that Batumi is a fantastic place for spring birding.
Have fun reading!